by communications@cwl.ca | Mar 19, 2024 | In the News, Media, News Releases
Saint Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the Principal Patron of Canada, and Patron of the Universal Church. In the Year of St. Joseph (2020-2021), Pope Francis’ sought to “increase our love for this great saint, to encourage us to implore his intercession...
by communications@cwl.ca | Mar 1, 2024 | In the News, Media, News Releases
The World Day of Prayer is an invitation for Christians to pause and pray together ecumenically. It recalls our Christian responsibility to be sensitive to the signs of the times so that we might bring a more authentically Christian dimension to the concerns of our...
by cwlnational | Feb 12, 2024 | In the News, Media, News Releases
Pope Francis’ message for Lent urges “To pause in prayer, in order to receive the word of God, to pause like the Samaritan in the presence of a wounded brother or sister. Love of God and love of neighbour are one love. …For this reason, prayer, almsgiving and fasting...
by cwlnational | Feb 6, 2024 | In the News, Media, News Releases
The International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking on February 8, [is] a day established in 2015 by Pope Francis on the feast day of Saint Josephine Bakhita, the Sudanese sister who was a victim of trafficking and a universal symbol of the...
by cwlnational | Feb 1, 2024 | In the News, Media, News Releases
Saint Pope John Paul II instituted the World Day for Consecrated Life on February 2nd to “to help the entire Church to esteem ever more greatly the witness of those persons who have chosen to follow Christ by means of the practice of the evangelical counsels” as well...
